Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

Each one of us must carry within the proof of immortality, it cannot be given from outside of us. To be sure, everything in natureis change but behind the change there is something eternal.

Artists have a double relationship towards nature: they are her master and her slave at the same time. They are her slave in so far as they must work with means of this world so as to be understood; her master in so far as they subject these means to their higher goals and make them subservient to them.

The coward only threatens when he is safe.

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

Certain books seem to be written, not that we might learn from them, but in order that we might see how much the author knows.

Few men have imagination enough for reality.